Support your favourite team and come and use our art studio to make a fabulous banner for the cup!
Pablos Art Studios is opening up their doors so that rugby fans of all ages can make some banners to take along to the games. No artistic experience necessary – just gather your friends and come and unleash some creative talent. Make a banner (or two) for your favourite (or more deserving) rugby team.
On Saturday 1st October, Pablos Art Studios will provide some space, resources and professional guidance to rugby fans who want to make banners. All art materials including paint, templates, and pre-cut banners will be available for a small fee per between $30-60 per group.
Come along and join in the cup excitement. You’ll get to create and take home your unique support banner as well as supporting Pablos Art Studios. It doesn't get much better than that!
Contact Pablos Art Studios on (04) 382 8885 / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve your place. Numbers are limited so bookings are essential. This workshop will take place on the 1st October between 11am-2.30pm held at Pablos on the cnr of Vivian and Victoria St.
For further information contact the administrator, Pablos Art Studios Inc.
Tel: 04 382-8885
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PABLOS WINTER ZOO TRIP 2011
Wed 24th August - Meet you at the Zoo at 1pm!
Edgy art in Bowen House exhibition space
Pablos Artists will be represented in Make/Believe, an exhibition presented by Arts Access Aotearoa and opening in Parliament’s Bowen House, Wellington on 7 July.
The exhibition will be opened by the Hon. Christopher Finlayson, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage and features the artwork of artists working at creative spaces from Dunedin through to Auckland will be. Richard Benge, Executive Director of Arts Access Aotearoa, says Make/Believe is an opportunity for people to see the vibrant, inventive art created by New Zealand’s self-taught artists.
“Having the exhibition in Bowen House acknowledges the valuable contribution that creative spaces and self-taught artists make to New Zealand’s rich and diverse cultural identity,” he says. Creative spaces are community arts organisations providing artistic opportunities for people with limited access to make art, and participate in music, dance, theatre and writing.
Stuart Shepherd, artist and academic, is curating the exhibition. New Zealand’s leading exponent of self-taught art, Stuart says that self-taught art (also described as outsider art) has entered the contemporary art scene, both here and overseas. “Contemporary artists have always sought inspiration from art and objects on the edges of society … the edgy stuff,” he says. “And in recent years, collectors have also been seeking inspiration from the same source.”
What resonates today, Stuart says, is the artists’ treatment of often-recycled materials, and their particular inventiveness and imagination. Stuart has been attending the New York Outsider Art Fair since 1991 and first hosted a New Zealand booth at the fair in 2009. He is delighted with the quality of the artworks in the show and says Make/Believe sits easily alongside other international shows of Outsider Art.
The creative spaces whose artists are participating in the exhibition are Studio 2 and Artsenta in Dunedin; Community Art Works in Nelson; Vincents Art Workshop, Alpha Art Studio and Pablos Art Studios in Wellington; Take 5 & Te Whare Marama in Lower Hutt; King Street Artworks in the Wairarapa; Sandz Gallery and Studio in Hamilton; and Spark Studio, Toi Ora Live Art Trust and Hohepa Helios in Auckland.
Arts Access Aotearoa gathered more than 100 images from creative spaces. Every image will be in the show via a continually revolving digital presentation. From these images, 30 works have been selected to be hung in the space.
The exhibition will close at the end of August. For more information go to www.artsaccess.org.nz
Pablos Art Studios annual group exhibition and Open Studio evening: April 14th 2011.
Art auction 2010 results
Pablos Art Auction 14th October 2010. Shed 11, Wellington.
Each year Pablos holds an art auction to raise funds. We auction donated work from some of the best artists in New Zealand as well as the fabulous work of the artists who work at Pablos.
This year’s auction was very successful raising $57,500.00. This money is a vital part of our yearly operating budget and goes towards paying a large part of our rent.
Thanks to everybody who bought a ticket and came along.
Local group, Newtown Rocksteady gets down with some Pablos Artists before the doors open.